Science & Society

People Complain Less About Travel Issues When The Airline Is Smaller

Airline-related complaints made to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) from 2002 to 2012  reveal that passengers were less likely to make a formal complaint about service quality if they were on a long-established "network" carrier. Pass ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2014 - 2:53pm

Finnish Agriculture Embraces More Capitalism

Agriculture in Finland is becoming more market driven. What will that mean? Fluctuation in prices, more so than with current EU and Finland subsidies and quotas, but better efficiency. Competition will mean fewer farms.  The reason for the changes is becau ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2014 - 10:10am

Medical Tourists Rarely Do Proper Research About Health Consequences

British people traveling abroad for medical treatment are often unaware of the potential health and financial consequences they could face- with sometimes catastrophic effects for individual patients. More than 63,000 UK residents travel abroad for medica ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2014 - 9:36pm

Freelancers: How To Get More Jobs

Estimates say there are over 3,000,000 registered freelancers worldwide, competing for everything from computer programming and web design to finance and engineering. How can you make yourself more attractive to potential employers?   ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 9:35am

Demonizing E-Cigarettes Is Not Evidence-based

Sometimes it's just public relations. We subsidize nicotine patches but regulators are increasingly interested in banning electronic cigarettes. Such misguided legislation, not backed by sound data, may have consequences for public health, experts sa ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 10:11am

Energy Drinks Are A Gateway Drug For Teens?

Almost one-third of US adolescents consume high-caffeine energy drinks and the teens who do also report higher rates of alcohol, cigarette, or drug use, according to a paper in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. The same characteristics that attract young ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 6:41pm

Job Tenure Has Remained Stable Over Time- Except For Men

Are American jobs less stable? Do workers change employers more frequently than in the past? The reflexive answer is yes, especially since unemployment is the worst it's been in decades, but on average that is not the case. On average, job tenure (th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 6:43pm

DiscoverE: Girls Coding Club For Grades 3 To 9 Wins Google RISE Award

The DiscoverE outreach program and its Girls Coding Club program teaching computer programming to girls from grades 3 to 9, has won a Google RISE Award.  Last year, DiscoverE, an initiative by the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering, became the f ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 11:22am

Gay Sex: What's Love Got To Do With It?

Researchers stray from the usual heteronormative parameters in a new take on determining the relationship between love and sex.  They collected data from an Internet-based survey of almost 25,000 gay and bisexual men residing in the United States who were ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 5:12pm

US Lead In Science And Technology Continues To Narrow

United States dominance in science and technology declined  during the last decade as several Asian nations rapidly increased their innovation capacities. According to a new report, The 2014 volume of Science and Engineering Indicators prepared by NSF ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2014 - 6:56pm